Socialism wafts in the spring wind.
That son of Brooklyn, Bernie Sanders, walks the streets of the city denouncing the lords of finance. And in the Bronx, Randy Levine, president of that Goldman Sachs of baseball franchises, the Yankees, holds forth on the unjustness of a more rarefied socialism.
Levine says Major League Baseball’s revenue-sharing agreement, which compels wonderfully wealthy franchises to give tens of millions of dollars to somewhat less-wealthy teams, is a too-blunt instrument of redistribution.
“What is very burdensome to us, and is unfair, is the amount of money we have to pay in revenue sharing compared, for example, to teams in our market that pay 10 times less than us,” Mr.